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Saturday October 26, 2013 8:32 AM

Catholics in North Dakota were warned to watch for symptoms of hepatitis A after a bishop with
the disease served Holy Communion at four churches, putting worshippers at risk, state officials
said.

Bishop John Folda of the Catholic Diocese of Fargo got hepatitis from contaminated food while in
Italy last month for a conference of newly ordained bishops, Aliceyn Magelky, spokeswoman for the
diocese, said yesterday.

Folda served Communion during Mass at three churches in Fargo and one church in Jamestown
between Sept. 27 and Oct. 7, the North Dakota Department of Health said. The Mass in Jamestown was
at a convention of priests.

“He feels terrible about it,” Magelky said. “He did not know when coming back that he had
contracted the virus or he would have refrained from participating in Mass much sooner.”